I have had a particle emitter successfully operating behind a separate image object where they are both children of a container before RC6, to produce a highlighter effect for certain display elements.
Now in RC6, the emitted particles display above the image object even when depth is specified for it to be otherwise.
In the following example code, the items on the left are working as designed without containers, and the ones on the right within containers are misbehaving.
https://phaser.io/sandbox/Y1vRLaBw